New Minn. state law bans hallucinogenic drug
Several new state laws will hit the books on August 1st. Among them, a ban on a hallucinogenic drug which had been legally sold
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An alarming number of people die of prescription drug overdoses each year
Sunday, August 1, 2010 Imagine if 14 Greyhound buses pulled onto your street. Each bus was full of people — nearly 700 in all. That’s how many people died in the Tampa Bay area of a prescription drug overdose in 2009. Statewide, nearly 2,500 people fatally overdosed last year on prescription drugs. That would be 50 buses, each seat taken. It’s an alarming number of people — an average of seven a …
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Singapore hypocrisy: hang the drug couriers while investing with the drug barons
The net effect of the Singapore government’s barbaric hanging of drug courier Van Nguyen will be to increase profits for the government’s trading partner, Burmese drug lord Lo Hsing Han. While the high-profile execution will no doubt reduce the supply of heroin somewhat, the inelastic demand by addicts will just increase the margin to the wholesaler, [...]
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